Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike says he had resolved not to re-contest the governorship election in the state if the Supreme Court ruling hadn’t gone his way.
Wike was last week, declared the duly elected governor of the state by the Supreme Court, putting an end to the bid of Dakuku Peterside of the All Progressives Congress, to unseat him.
Speaking on Sunday at the thanksgiving ceremony to mark his victory in Port Harcourt, Wike said he was willing to avert bloodshed by opting out of the governorship race, had he been ousted.
“Blood would have flown if the election was going to hold again. Many people were being arrested. I would call the security men, asking why they would say they were going to make sure there won’t be any problem. So I called some people including the Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus that I was not going to run again. They said why and I explained that if I did, many people would die.”
“If you are not a politician, stand where you are because you will collapse. On the day of the judgment, we were sitting in the parlour when my CSO came to tell me that I was going to lose, and I would be arrested. I asked him to leave my house. He said whether there was nothing we could do, I said he should leave.”
“I pray that my enemy should continue to have permanent high blood pressure. I wouldn’t pray that God will heal them. My own has come down now, and for several months it was high. It is time for their own to rise. Members of the Assembly (whose elections were nullified) would come and cry here. Sen. Sekibo would come here and pray that I should win first and that my own is better.”
“Some of them sold all they had to win the election, but their elections were nullified. Some just married and told their wives that it would be better but only to be sacked seven months later.”
Furthermore, Wike said his administration would not support the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari, noting that it is a one-sided campaign.
“We would not support the fight against corruption. People took our money from the state, and we wrote to the police asking them to go and make a statement, nothing has come out of it.
“We won’t take anybody to the EFCC because I know what would happen. We know how to fight our own way. We won’t support that war against corruption that they are doing.”
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